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To: Jamey who wrote (748319)	8/27/2006 12:34:22 AM
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Lieberman’s Run Shadows House Campaigns in Connecticut By JENNIFER MEDINA STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 25 — As Senator Joseph I. Lieberman begins to mount a vigorous and well-financed re-election campaign as an independent, many Connecticut Democrats say they are worried that his bid could jeopardize their party’s ability to win in three hotly contested House races this fall. Mr. Lieberman, a centrist Democrat who lost in the Aug. 8 Democratic primary to Ned Lamont, a wealthy businessman, is now running on his own line. With polls showing that many Democrats are eager for a change, Democratic officials say they expect Mr. Lieberman to campaign aggressively to win over Republican and unaffiliated voters. If he does, Democratic strategists say, he may well attract voters to the polls who are likely to support the state’s three Republicans in Congress: Nancy Johnson, Rob Simmons and Christopher Shays. “He has a Republican vote, that’s the fact,” said Tom Matzzie, the political director of Moveon.org, a liberal group that is backing Mr. Lamont and the Democratic challengers in the three House races. And those voters, he said, are “likely to vote as Republicans in every race.” But the Democrats are also hoping that their candidates — Chris Murphy, Joe Courtney and Diane Farrell — will win in the same way as Mr. Lamont won in the primary: by riding what they consider a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment, widespread opposition to the war in Iraq and falling support for President Bush. Rahm Emanuel, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, expressed confidence that Democratic turnout would be strong for the House races in Connecticut. “Explain to me how two Democrats running is bad,” Mr. Emanuel said in an interview. “Would I prefer it be simpler? Yeah. But everybody is hyperventilating, and my own view is that we have an energized base.” Mr. Emanuel, who is a congressman from Illinois, campaigned and raised money for Ms. Farrell in recent days. But other top Democrats, including Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, have called on Mr. Lieberman to drop out and say he is hurting both the state and national parties. The Connecticut races are considered very important to the Democrats’ ambitions for the midterm elections. By almost any calculation, the Democrats, who hold the state’s other two House seats, will have to capture at least one of the three Republican-held seats to retake control of the House, political analysts say. The three House races offer many parallels to the Senate contest. Like Mr. Lieberman, the Republican incumbents are all centrists who support the war in Iraq.